We are very sorry to announce that, in line with new, stringent Covid-19 restrictions announced on 19 December which prevent travel between Scotland and the rest of the UK, we are no longer able to present this streamed performance. Our sincere apologies to everyone who was hoping to join us. Join us live and online […]
We are very sorry to announce that, in line with new, stringent Covid-19 restrictions announced on 19 December which prevent travel between Scotland and the rest of the UK, we are no longer able to present this streamed performance. Our sincere apologies to everyone who was hoping to join us. All ticket holders will be […]
We are sorry to announce that due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, this event has been postponed. Further details on the rescheduled event will be available soon. Nicholas Mulroy director & tenor Pippa Murphy composer ‘I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I […]
We are sorry to announce that due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, this event has been postponed. Further details on the rescheduled event will be available soon. Nicholas Mulroy director & tenor Pippa Murphy composer ‘I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I […]
Click HERE to view the broadcast. This performance was recorded in Christ Church, London, and was first broadcast as part of Spitalfields Festival in December 2020 — made possible through support from the Culture Recovery Fund. We are delighted to be able to share it with you, by kind permission of Spitalfields Music.
Over the years, our celebrated interpretation of Bach’s Matthew Passion has earned us five-star reviews, coveted awards and taken us around the world. It has become one of the cornerstones of our season. But in 2020, for the first time in our history, the concert halls fell silent and our annual performances were cancelled. It was a strange and sombre Easter without Bach’s music for comfort. This year, we return Perth Concert Hall for a […]
Please note that this event will now take place as a live broadcast from St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh on BBC Radio 3. Exquisitely restrained yet indescribably intense, Arvo Pärt’s Passio is a modern masterpiece. This hour-long setting of St John’s Gospel draws upon some of the earliest settings of the passion story to reframe and distil its message for modern listeners. Interpolating passages for solo voices and choral ensembles, we are never […]
Please click HERE to watch the online video broadcast. Exquisitely restrained yet indescribably intense, Arvo Pärt’s Passio is a modern masterpiece. This hour-long setting of St John’s Gospel draws upon some of the earliest settings of the passion story to reframe and distil its message for modern listeners. Interpolating passages for solo voices and choral ensembles, we are never far away from familiar passion territory and yet, with Pärt’s characteristic vocal candour and pared-down orchestration, it is a work that somehow remains timeless. In a Dunedin Consort first, we are […]
‘Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate’ sings Dido at the end of Purcell’s opera. But life isn’t always quite so straightforward, and some memories have a destiny of their own. Set several years after the Carthaginian queen’s death, Dido’s Ghost finds Dido’s sister Anna abandoned on the shores of Aeneas’s new kingdom, igniting a murderous jealously in Aeneas’s wife Lavinia – and […]
JS Bach scholars have generally agreed that the Concerto in A major, BWV1055, actually started life as a concerto for oboe d’amore - an alto instrument lying midway between the oboe and cor anglais - before Bach reworked it for harpsichord, which is the version more often heard. Bach served as the Director of Music […]
